topic Re: SAS Licensing on Docker in Administration and Deployment

SAS Licensing on Docker

BigDeadBadger — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:24:34 GMT

Hi All,

I was curious if someone could help me understand how SAS (9 or Viya) can be licensed under a docker based deployment model?

I'm trying to work out how a annual / CPU based license is enforced if folks are running multiple dokcer containers simultaneously.

Thanks in advance

Re: SAS Licensing on Docker

nhvdwalt — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:41:09 GMT

Hi @BigDeadBadger

Kindly get in touch with your SAS Account Executive since this is a commercial discussion.

Re: SAS Licensing on Docker

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:41:40 GMT

Since server-based SAS is usually licensed along the number of CPU cores, the cores available on the system running the containers will be relevant. IMHO.

Re: SAS Licensing on Docker

BigDeadBadger — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:30:54 GMT

I did - been waiting 2 weeks for a reply

Re: SAS Licensing on Docker

BigDeadBadger — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:37:23 GMT

Thanks for the reply Kurt - but I would want to understand how:

If SAS is deployed inside the container (not simply code - but the actual SAS binaries) - SAS is abstracted from the underlying infrastructure even further (and lets assume it's probably also a VM).

And whilst we could limit the CPUs permitted in the container - we are at risk of running 1000 containers and going beyond a committed core count.

Thanks!

Re: SAS Licensing on Docker

nhvdwalt — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:38:23 GMT

Please message me directly....

Re: SAS Licensing on Docker

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:40:44 GMT

@BigDeadBadger wrote:

Thanks for the reply Kurt - but I would want to understand how:

If SAS is deployed inside the container (not simply code - but the actual SAS binaries) - SAS is abstracted from the underlying infrastructure even further (and lets assume it's probably also a VM).

And whilst we could limit the CPUs permitted in the container - we are at risk of running 1000 containers and going beyond a committed core count.

Thanks!

That's why I think the license would go along the number of cores available to the system hosting the containers.

We run SAS in a dedicated LPAR on a pSeries, where the # of CPU's is set according to our SAS license.